8-letter words containing g, a, t, s
- ganister — a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gantlets — Plural form of gantlet.
- gantries — Plural form of gantry.
- garagist — a person who owns a commercial garage
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- garrotes — Plural form of garrote.
- gas lift — Gas lift is a method in which gas is injected into the production tubing (= tubes through which hydrocarbons flow to the surface) to allow liquids to enter the wellbore at a higher flow rate.
- gas tank — a tank containing the gasoline supply in a car, truck, or other gasoline-engine vehicle.
- gas tube — an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.
- gaslight — light produced by the combustion of illuminating gas.
- gasteral — Of or pertaining to the stomach.
- gastero- — gastro-
- gastfull — dismal; dreary
- gasthaus — a German inn or tavern.
- gastight — not penetrable by a gas.
- gastness — terror or fright.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrick — Obsolete form of gastric.
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gatepost — the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
- gateways — Plural form of gateway.
- gaudiest — Superlative form of gaudy.
- gaullist — a supporter of the political principles of Charles Charles de Gaulle.
- gauntest — Superlative form of gaunt.
- gauziest — Superlative form of gauzy.
- gavottes — Plural form of gavotte.
- gawkiest — Superlative form of gawky.
- gazettes — Plural form of gazette.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- gelatins — Plural form of gelatin.
- genitals — Synonym of genitalia.
- gentians — Plural form of gentian.
- geotaxis — oriented movement of a motile organism toward or away from a gravitational force.
- gestalts — Plural form of gestalt.
- gestated — Simple past tense and past participle of gestate.
- gestates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gestate.
- gestural — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- getaways — Plural form of getaway.
- ghastful — frightful.
- giantess — an imaginary female being of human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- giantism — Pathology. gigantism.
- gigabits — Plural form of gigabit.
- gigatons — Plural form of gigaton.
- gladdest — Superlative form of glad.
- glasnost — the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- glassfet — /glas'fet/ [Analogy with MOSFET] (or "firebottle") A humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube.
- glottals — Plural form of glottal.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goalpost — a post supporting a crossbar and, with it, forming the goal on a playing field in certain sports, as football.